The Open
Science Grid, a nationwide community grid built by research groups from United
States universities and national laboratories, will showcase advanced grid
technologies and innovative scientific applications at SC|05, the premier
international conference on high performance computing, networking and
storage.

Presentations and demonstrations at 13 booths will show how
scientists from diverse fields contribute manpower and resources to the OSG and
benefit from easy access to local and remote resources, testing and production
environments for middleware and applications, and a common computing
infrastructure. Over 20 member organizations representing more than 50
institutions and hundreds of researchers contribute to the OSG and benefit from
access to shared resources worldwide, including over 10,000 CPUs and many
terabytes of data storage.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center exhibit, Booth
302, is dedicated to the OSG as well as the high-performance networking,
computing and scientific advances from the two national laboratories.
OSG-related demonstrations and presentations at SC|05 will
include:

a.. Astronomy and astrophysics: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
astronomers are running several applications on the OSG, including a search for
near Earth objects and the processing of tens of thousands of spectra to
determine the properties of quasars. LIGO physicists use the OSG to search for
gravitational waves from the binary inspiral of neutron star
systems. b.. Physics: The CMS experiment uses the OSG for computing and
data-intensive particle physics simulations, and will use the grid for data
analysis when the Large Hadron Collider begins operating at CERN in Geneva,
Switzerland. OSG collaborators from the CMS and ATLAS experiments participated
in the LHC Service Challenges, which earlier this year sustained a continuous
data flow of 600 MB/s on average for 10 days from CERN to sites worldwide.
Particle and nuclear physics experiments use grid technology to simulate,
process and transfer data in their search for the nature of matter and
energy. c.. Biology: OSG resources are used for genome analysis at
Argonne National Laboratory, and for bioinformatics and biology through the Grid
Resources for Advanced Science and Engineering (GRASE) VO at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. d.. Bandwidth Challenge: OSG
collaborators will participate in the SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge, aiming to
transfer data internationally at a higher rate than ever before. e..
Grid technology: OSG collaborators have advanced many areas of grid technology.
Demonstrations will highlight research in the areas of security, storage, data
distribution, collaboration, networking and monitoring. f..
Interoperability: OSG collaborators successfully running jobs on multiple grid
infrastructures, including the OSG, the TeraGrid, the LHC Computing Grid, the
ACDC Grid and the Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin, will demonstrate this
interoperability at several SC|05 exhibits. g.. Education: The QuarkNet
cosmic ray study uses grid tools and techniques in a model problem-based,
student-driven and technology-dependent student investigation. QuarkNet
collaborators will demonstrate how high school students reach beyond classroom
walls to explore data with other students and experts and share results,
publishing original work to a worldwide audience.

The research and
accomplishments of the OSG collaboration will be featured at the following SC|05
exhibits: Argonne National Laboratory (Booth 1629); Brookhaven National
Laboratory (2238); Caltech, Center for Advanced Computing Research (428); Center
for Computational Research, University at Buffalo (459); Fermilab/SLAC (302);
Indiana University (202); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1828); National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (1639); Purdue University (206); Texas
Tech University, HPCC (2162); University of Florida (6319); University of Iowa
(128); and Vanderbilt University (6013).

SC|05 takes place November 12-18
at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle.

The Open
Science Grid makes innovative science possible by bringing multidisciplinary
collaborations together with the latest advances in distributed computing
technologies. This shared cyberinfrastructure, built by research groups from
U.S. universities and national laboratories, includes over 10,000 CPUs and many
terabytes of data storage. The OSG receives support from the National Science
Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more
information about the OSG, visit www.opensciencegrid.org.